Key Concepts

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Correspondence principle
Bowles and Gintis' concept describing the way organisation and control of schools mirrors the workplace in capitalist society. For example, the control teachers exert over pupils mirrors the control managers exert over workers.
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Critical race theory (CRT)
CRT sees racism as an innate feature of society resulting from the attitudes of individuals and institutional racism. This includes selection, the ethnocentric curriculum and assessment. Requires action by oppressed groups to overcome
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Cultural capital
the knowledge, attitudes, values, language, tastes and abilities that the middle class transmit to their children. Bourdieu argues that educational success is largely based on possession of cultural capital, thus giving middle-class children an adv
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Cultural deprivation
the theory that many working-class and black children are inadequately socialised and therefore lack the 'right' culture needed for educational success; e.g. their families do not instil the value of deferred gratification.
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Culture
all those things that are learnt and shared by a society or group of people and transmitted from generation to generation through socialisation. It includes shared norms, values, knowledge, beliefs and skills.
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Curriculum
those things taught or learnt in educational institutions. The official curriculum includes the subjects, courses etc offered (e.g. the National Curriculum)
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Hidden curriculum
includes all those things learnt without being formally taught and often acquired simply through the everyday workings of the school, such as attitudes of obedience, conformity and competitiveness.
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Death rate
the number of deaths per thousand of the population per year.
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Critical race theory (CRT)

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CRT sees racism as an innate feature of society resulting from the attitudes of individuals and institutional racism. This includes selection, the ethnocentric curriculum and assessment. Requires action by oppressed groups to overcome

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Cultural capital

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Cultural deprivation

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Culture

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